Agile Desktop provides a pre-built UI that can be customized to suit your needs. A common use case is for a customer service user where customer data is collected and displayed on the UI to facilitate quick answers to questions during the interaction. In addition, there are several plugins that can be used such as Notes that facilitate other common customer-service scenarios. In general, you'd use it if you had use for an application bar docked to the left side of the screen displaying data from your adapters and wanted to utilize some of the built-in functions available.

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